The profit from securities lending comes from investing that cash for a higher return than is owed the short- sellers.

Securities lending is a common practice among large institutional investors who own large amounts of stock, bonds and other securities.

The term "securities lending" is sometimes used erroneously in the same context as a "stock loan" or individual "securities-collateralized loan".

While securities lending is a common practice among large institutional investors, First Capital Strategists is among its most aggressive practitioners.

Securities lending occurs when firms lend their own or their clients' portfolios of securities to brokerage firms which use them to complete transactions.

Securities lending is a service offered to investors, typically large mutual funds and pension plans, that use banks to keep physical custody of the stocks and bonds they own.

In investment banking, the term "securities lending" is also used to describe a service offered to large investors who can allow the investment bank to lend out their shares to other people.

Securities lending refers to a practice in the financial markets where one party lends its shares to another temporarily, in exchange for collateral which may be in the form of cash or other shares.

The collateral from securities lending was used for stock index arbitrage, in which a trader tries to profit from the difference between a basket of stocks and an index future, which is a contract to buy or sell a basket of stocks at a certain price at a certain time.